VR treadmills are what happens when engineers who’ve never met a human try to solve the problem of “how to walk in virtual reality without walking in real life.” The result? A bizarre contraption that makes you look like a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Blurred Reality: When Your Brain Gets Stuck in the Digital World Gamers exist in a perpetual state of dimensional drift, where the rules of virtual worlds inevitably corrupt their perception of reality. It begins innocently enough – you absentmindedly reach[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Virtual reality promises to transport you to fantastical worlds—but what it actually does is remind you that your apartment is way too small for this nonsense. No matter how carefully you set up your play area, VR has a way[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Zoom recently went from “Hey, let’s virtual happy hour!” to “Wait, is the FBI in this breakout room?” faster than you could say “You’re on mute!” Zoom essentially promised real end-to-end encryption but terms and conditions apply. Exclusions include: free[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There exists a special breed of gamer so thoroughly consumed by their virtual escapades that basic life skills evaporate the moment the controller is in hand. These are the people who, mid-raid in World of Warcraft, will ignore a fire[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know that feeling when you click a link with hopeful anticipation, only to be greeted by that digital dead end: the dreaded 404 error? This virtual cul-de-sac is the Internet’s way of saying, “The thing you wanted? Gone. Poof.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The modern workplace has bestowed upon us a new form of collective suffering: the Zoom call where half the participants seem to be engaged in an avant-garde performance art piece titled “I Don’t Know How My Camera Works.” These virtual[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The unhackable cloud is tech’s most adorable urban myth, right up there with “the printer will work if I yell at it” and “I’ll remember this password later.” Newsflash: just because your data is floating in the digital sky doesn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the dystopian landscape of virtual meetings, humanity has fractured into two distinct species. I call them the Mute Enlightened and the Mute Oblivious. The former have elevated the mute button to a spiritual practice, conducting entire shadow lives off-camera—belting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’ve all become masters of digital deception thanks to Zoom’s magical background filters. That pristine virtual bookshelf behind you during meetings is hiding a reality that looks more like a hurricane hit a thrift store. We click blur background with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…